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roland.kalus@ns.protel.de
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 95 20:04 MEZ
From: roland kalus
Favourite licks of guitarist Roland Kalus of DEEP 'N BACK
Hy folks,
I play guitar for over 20 years now and of course I am still learning. The
licks (or better lines)
you will find, are some suggestions to break out of the usual stuff
(pentantonics and scale-
lines...uuups pentatonic can be very hip, if your phrasing is good and you
use it in a more
jazzy-way). My main influences are still Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Scott
Henderson and
Pat Metheny (not ot forgett Pat Martino). You should listen to this guys,
especially when you
are a younger player. These guys are playing real melodies and all of them
have a
phantastic phrasing. Analysing and transcribing their music can take you
faster to the most
exciting step in music: Expressing yourself. Forget all this boring Heavy
Metal-Stuff (they all
sound the same and most of them have nothing to say with their
instrument)(... ok... that are
my favourit prejudice). Learn the lines slowly and combine them with your
usual stuff.
If you have any comments or questions you can mail me at
roland.kalus@ns.protel.de.
I am also very interested in exchanging ideas.
Next time I will show you some harmonic approaches I use in my playing.
Have a good time.......
Roland Kalus
Lick 1) is a kind of "arabic-sounding" blues-lick (Larry Cartlon-Style...).
Play it fast over Amin or A7, phrase it very bluesy. This lick is very good
to take you a little
outside...
ho pl sl sm
-------------------------------------------6---9---6---5------8-------------------
--------------------4--5----7---8-------------------------------------------------
-------------4--5-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----4---5------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lick 2) contains lot of chromatic passing tones, picking every note gives it
a real hard
character. Same context as lick 1. I was inspired by Pat Martino, though Im
not a JAZZ-
Monster I try to transfer this jazzy-stuff into rock and blues. I think
Robben Ford uses that
kind of stuff a lot.
------9-----12---11---10---9---10-------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------13---12---10------------------10--9--8---------
-------------------------------------------------12--11--10--9--------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lick 3) is kind a string-skipped F-maj7 killer-appreggio, play it fast as a
sequence but not too
often. It sounds great using it over the damned same context as above... (we
make it easy).
Analyse the shape and tranfer it minor and dom7. It works fine.
-----------------------8----12----8-----------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------9---10----------------10---9----------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----8---12-------------------------------12----8--etc...-------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lick4) takes you again out of the tonal centre. Again phrase bluesy and of
course use it in the
same context (Amin, A7, Cmaj7 etc)
-----14---16---12-----------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------12---15--13---12-----------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------13-------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------13--14-----------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lick 5) is the last for today....and is a blues-starting lick (of course you
can use it in Jazz,
Rock ....) play lick5) and continue with lick 2) or 4)... you have a nice
solo-line.....
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------10----12^13^12---10---12^13-------------------
--------------------------9--10/11------------------------------------------------
--------------7----10/11----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2]
Hi Folks, here we are again. Today this doc deals with alternatives to usual modes
we all tend to use too much. I will try to give some ideas on approaching this chord
to scale relationship a bit easier. Not everything in this chapter is totaly new and
even some things derive from musicians I listen to.
O.K lets go on ...... Now we try to say goodby to the mixolydian mode usually used
to build lines over a dom7-chord. Lets say we pick A7 in a blues-situation, that
means we are in the key of C and the mixolydian-scale starting with the note G
would fit perfectly. As a little reminder here is the mixo-scale starting on the
12th fret..
---------------------------------12--13--15---------------
---------------12---13---15-------------------------------
--12---14-------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
Here we have that outside-lick of last week again....
some A-melodic-minor color is added:
-----14---16---12-----------------------------------------
---------------------12---15--13---12---------------------
---------------------------------------13-----14----------
-----------------------------------------13---------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
Important is that the outside-notes leads inside again, here we go back to the note A.
This line features and underlines the notes Gb,Ab and Eb which gives your C tonality
an optional #9, an #11 and an extra 7. Sounds not bad when you get a bit more used to it.
Remember that rhythmic phrasing is the key to good lines, so stress the inside-notes
a bit more. The optional notes color the chord you are playing over. It is the same if
you play an C-maj7 or an A-min7 or A7. They fit... believe it.
If you just add the f# to your G-mixo-scale you get that favourit BeBop-Scale the guys
in the 40 and 50th invented. It looks like this and adds more chromatical character
to the mixo-mode:
---------------------------------12--13-14-15-------------
---------------12---13---15-------------------------------
--12---14-------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
Try this line made out of the bebob-scale:
---12-15--12-14--13--12------12---------------------------
-------------------------15------13--15~b~17--------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
Another one with lots of chromatic (and a Fmaj9/#11 arpreggio
in the beginning:
-----------------------17--16-----------------------------
---------------15--18---------18---15--16--17-------------
-------14--16---------------------------------------------
---15-----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
Almost the same line an octave lower and with even more chromatic at
the end..... if you play this one real fast and good phrased its a
spectacular killer....
----------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------15-14-13-12-13---
--------------------14-13-------------12------------------
------------12--15--------15-12-13-14---------------------
-----12--14-----------------------------------------------
--11------------------------------------------------------
The combination of arpreggios and chromatic is a wonderful mean to get
out of this boring scale-playing.. try this one and listen to Larry Carltons
Solo on Steely Dan "Kid Charlemagne" , you should find lots of this kind..
--------------------------------8-------------------------
------------------------8-9-10----8b10--------------------
--------------7-------9-----------------------------------
--------7-8-9----9-10-------------------------------------
--7-10----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
Use this diminished arpreggios and sweep them fast to the
upper c-note and bend to d:
------------11HO14------------14HO17-------------17HO20b22-
---------13----------------16-----------------19-----------
--11HO14------------14HO17-------------17HO20--------------
-----------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------
So far so good. More in the next edition, experiment with the ideas and
make your own...try to break rules, use your ears and (hopefully) your taste.
Not everything must be explained,try to explain things by yourself
(Why do this diminished arps fit so well??!??), you will learn a lot by this.
Don't chew again and again the same boring stuff. Listen to the good muscians
- and there are a lots of them. Analyse them but dont copy them all your live.
Don't try to be the fastest, try to be the most musicaly!!!
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